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Five gems from the South Side Home Movie Project
The South Side Home Movie Project exhibition at the Logan Center for the Arts runs through August 24. Explore five surprising gems from the 20-year-old archive dedicated to preserving and digitizing the rich tapestry of home movies created by Chicago's South Side residents.
Arts & Humanities faculty member Hoyt Long receives named professorship
Twenty-six members of the University of Chicago faculty have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships, including Hoyt Long who has been named the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College.
Grant funds Smart Museum-Divinity School partnership to research religious objects
The University of Chicago has received a $2.45 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative. The grant will support the four-year project, Afterlives: Engaging Objects of Religious Origin in Museum Collections, a collaboration between the Smart Museum of Art and the Divinity School’s Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion.
UChicago announces 2025 winners of Quantrell and Ph.D. teaching awards
UChicago annually recognizes faculty for their incredible teaching and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students through the Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, believed to be the nation’s oldest prize for undergraduate teaching; and the Faculty Awards for Excellence in Ph.D. Teaching and Mentoring, which honor faculty for their work with graduate students. Two recipients are faculty members in the Division of the Arts and Humanities: Lenore Grenoble, the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Linguistics; and Timothy Harrison, Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought.
